Lisa Schneider - Manager, Employee Wellness Program
Caroline Reinhart - Wellness Coordinator
Angela Precht - Wellness Coordinator
Michelle Nasers - Administrative Assistant
Wellness Champions
Wellness Champions for the Michigan Healthy Community
Initiative play an important role in reaching out and engaging UM’s
faculty and staff within their work unit. Their ability to effectively
communicate with their work unit about the programs and resources
available, to encourage them to take advantage of these services,
and to champion the creation of a healthy workplace culture in their
unit will be key to our success in improving the health and well-being
of UM’s faculty and staff.
The role of the Wellness Champion entails the following
duties:
Communicating regularly with the Michigan Healthy Community
project team by emailing mhealthy@umich.edu
or calling 975-3056 (dial all seven digits).
Forwarding on participants' monthly e-mails to department staff.
Reserving a "Healthy Minute" in staff meetings to update
staff on upcoming wellness programs and information.
Being the liaison between the wellness staff and departmental
staff.
Creating an Mhealthy Bulletin Board in your department with
material gained from the Wellness Champion tool kit, the monthly
program emails, and the web site.
Being an active and enthusiastic “Ambassador” for
wellness in your department!
Awards & Recognition
2005 Innovation in Prevention
Award Winner
The University of Michigan Health System’s MFit Employee
Wellness Program was the only organization in the large employer
category to receive the Innovation in Prevention Award from
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. MFit was
honored for its programs aimed at educating, motivating and
empowering the UMHS’s nearly 18,000 employees to make
healthy lifestyle choices. www.med.umich.edu/mfit/dhhsaward.htm
Washtenaw County Healthy
Workplace Award Winners
MFit wins top award for Washtenaw County Healthy Workplaces
The Washtenaw County Public Health Department
has honored five local organizations for promoting healthy
workplaces. The U-M Health System’s MFit Health Promotion
Division won a 2005 Healthy Workplace Award in the platinum
category. Last year MFit received the gold award.
The award recognizes employers who have shown
a commitment to their employees’ health, well-being
and quality of life by implementing health promotion and wellness
programs at the work site.
MFit Recognized as a Leader by the Governor's Council on Fitness
In 2003, MFit was awarded the prestigious
Silver Award by the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness,
Health and Sports for the second consecutive year. The Silver
Award honors workplaces that have sustained participation
and/or comprehensive programs in physical fitness, health
and sports. MFit was also given the Silver Award in 1999 and
the Gold Award in 1997.
You can see this award in the award
cases along the walkway to the LINK.
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